Akash vs Modal
6 GPUs in common. Akash is cheaper on 6, Modal on 0; on average Modal is 72% above Akash.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Akash | Modal | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B300 | $6.00 | $7.10 | Akash −15% | $7.85 |
| NVIDIA B200 | $5.00 | $6.25 | Akash −20% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $4.45 | $4.54 | Akash −2% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $2.71 | $3.95 | Akash −31% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.71 | $2.50 | Akash −32% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA T4 | $0.15 | $0.59 | Akash −75% | $0.59 |
Only one of them has it
Questions
Is Akash or Modal cheaper?
On the 6 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Akash is cheaper on 6 and Modal on 0. On average Modal is 72% more expensive than Akash across those GPUs. The table shows each one; the gap is rarely uniform.
What does one have that the other does not?
Akash alone prices RTX 5090, RTX 4090, V100 16GB, RTX 4080, RTX 3090; Modal alone prices RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, A100 40GB, L40S, A10, L4. They are different kinds of provider — Akash is a marketplace, Modal a neocloud — which is most of why the prices differ.
Where do these prices come from?
Akash: Public pricing page, parsed. Per-GPU price is the listed per-GPU rate, or the node price divided by GPU count. Prices near reserved, committed or contract terms are discarded; anything outside a plausible range for the GPU is discarded. Modal: Public pricing page, parsed. Per-GPU price is the listed per-GPU rate, or the node price divided by GPU count. Prices near reserved, committed or contract terms are discarded; anything outside a plausible range for the GPU is discarded. Both are read every six hours; nothing is estimated.